jury in a case, a juror is paid in accordance with Section 31 of the Jury Ordinance for each day during the whole or part of which the juror serves. In accordance to the subsidiary legislation of the Jury Ordinance, Allowances to Jurors Order, a juror is currently paid HKD930 for each day served or part thereof. Empanelling the jury List of jurors Each alternate year, following the details in the Jury Ordinance, the Registrar of the High Court makes a provisional list of jurors and inform them that they have been selected and asked to serve as jurors. If any of the potential jurors want to be excused from serving and have good reasons for that, they should contact and apply for exemption with the Registrar within two weeks from the time when they receive the notice of service. Moreover, the Registrar publishes the list of jurors in the Gazette and in one English and one Chinese newspaper. Number of jurors Provided in Section 25(4) of the Jury Ordinance, the jury shall consist of not less than five persons in any civil or criminal trial or coroner's inquest. Accordingly, criminal cases are normally tried by a seven-person jury. From time to time, at the discretion of the judge, a jury may increase in size to nine jurors. Random selection According to Section 13 and 21 of the Jury Ordinance, each potential juror is assigned a number. The Registrar is then to print the number on separate cards of equal size and put into a box. Afterwards, in open court, the Registrar draws cards from the box until a jury is formed. Strikes The accused person can challenge and strike a juror for good cause. In addition to the unlimited number of strikes to use on jurors with cause, the accused is granted the power to challenge and strike up to 5 jurors without any reason (peremptory challenge). However, the Secretary for Justice, whose office prosecutes the accused and initiates the criminal proceedings, also has the right to challenge and strike a juror for cause but no right to give pre-emptive challenge. In the Donald Tsang case, a candidate juror (a man) applied for exemption in order to take care of a baby after midnight. Initially the judge refused his application, but later the defence lawyer opposed the appointment of that candidate juror. This example shows the extent of the